Crime scene: hush money

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Hush money
Country of production	Germany
Production company	WDR
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
classification	Episode 106 ( List )
First broadcast	November 18, 1979 on ARD
Rod
Director	Hartmut Griesmayr
script	Herbert Lichtenfeld
production	Werner Kloss
music	Electric Light Orchestra
camera	Joseph Vilsmaier
cut	Thomas Nickel
occupation
Hansjörg Felmy : Commissioner Haferkamp Dieter Kirchlechner : Klaus Storck Hannelore Hoger : Ira Storck Wolfgang Kieling : Helmuth Klaven Gisela Zülch : Isolde Klaven Willy Semmelrogge : Cruiser Karin Eickelbaum : Ingrid Haferkamp Liane Hielscher : Gertrud Thiemann Erich Ludwig : Stefan Holger Hildmann : criminal inspector nails Helmut Stange : Karl Thiemann (burglar)

Schweigegeld is a television film from the television crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by WDR and broadcast for the first time on November 18, 1979. It is the 106th episode in the crime scene series, the 18th with Commissioner Haferkamp .

action

The unemployed architect Klaus Storck observed a break-in in the neighboring house of his brother-in-law Helmuth Klaven while he was playing computer chess from his studio. He rejects a call to the police and wants to see in person. His wife Ira can't stop him. He sees how the burglar takes a wad of banknotes from the welded safe and then calmly makes a phone call. When he tries to overpower the burglar, he dies. Storck takes the loot and throws the burglary tool into the nearby pond. He returns to his wife, puts the money on the living room table and tells her about what happened. Since the intruder's behavior seems strange to him, he does not alert the police, but intends to confront the newly arrived clavens. He learns from his hiding place that Isolde and Helmuth Klaven may have expected the break-in and also tells his wife this. He keeps the money for the time being. The burglar's wife, Gertrud Thiemann, and her brother worry hours later about Karl Thiemann's absence. You drive to the site of the break-in and see his car parked there. From the window Storck sees Klaven's conversation with the burglar's brother-in-law. This then drives the car away from the crime scene.

After another unsuccessful interview, Storck triumphantly shows his wife a newspaper article that reports on a stamp theft worth two million DM from wholesaler Klaven. That looks like insurance fraud and also explains Storck's increased wealth. After a crisis discussion with his wife, Storck decides to blackmail his brother-in-law.

Haferkamp and Kreuzer go to Gertrud Thiemann and her brother and tell them not only about the break-in at Klaven, but also about his death. The brother also announces that Klavens is blackmailing his sister. After the money was not handed over, Klaven went to Gertrud Thiemann and her brother with a gun and confronted them. He gives them 5000 DM as hush money.

Through the assumption of Kreuzer and his colleague Nägel about the cooperation of an accomplice, Klaven got the idea that maybe Storck is trying to blackmail him. In order to incriminate him, he secretly deposited a set of postage stamps in Storck's studio during an unimportant game of chess and sent Haferkamp to carry out a search in his apartment. Storck is arrested and confesses to having killed the burglar in his pursuit. But he is not in possession of the stamps that were allegedly stolen during the break-in. He accuses claves of insurance fraud. While Haferkamp receives an important private call, Storck uses the distraction and flees. He tries unsuccessfully to extract money from his brother-in-law so that he can go into hiding for a while.

Haferkamp is able to put Storck at the freight yard after the escaped man saved him from an approaching freight wagon. Haferkamp Storck then called his brother-in-law again to blackmail him for another DM 1,000. This time Klaven agrees and wants to shoot his unloved brother-in-law in an underground car park. But Haferkamp awaits him with his colleagues. Klaven gives up and announces a confession.

Web links

• Hush money in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hush money in the online film database
• Hush money from the crime scene fund
• Silence money at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: hush money . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).

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